"This choice is horrible.
And no, I thought Cheney was a great pick and Roberts too."
I am curious to know: how many of you good folks thought Roberts was good, but give a thumbs down here?
I was not on the Roberts bandwagon. There seemed to be better choices. His gay pro bono work still gives me the creeps. But, the fact that he was a Rehnquist pall bearer was, I think, a pretty strong statement. And I never doubted his intellect (though I still worry about his ideology). So I am not in the pro-Roberts, anti-Miers camp.
Seems to me there has been a SEISMIC shift with this pick. Even the Roberts supporters - and I think that was most here at FR - are almost unanimously against this pick.
Who all is in the pro-Roberts, anti-Miers camp?
I was initially on the fence with Roberts, but with a more-thourough research, I came on board. Dunno if I would have made him Chief Justice, though.
As for Miers, there appears to be nothing further down to suggest that she won't be another Souter, and a lot on the surface to suggest that she will be Souter's soulmate.
I have faith in Roberts...but this Miers, she is a darkhorse well at least to me because I thought Bush would choose JRB. JRB and Roberts would have been quite the duo.
I was strongly for Roberts because he was the most qualified candidate out there. And he had a conservative background. Not only do we not know who Miers is, she is not qualified for the Supreme Court. The White House underestimated how much we hate cronyism, especially bad cronyism.
Count me in that camp. Roberts had the qualifications for the job and I consider him an excellent choice. Miers does not, and frankly it is not even close. Even the conservative legal sites are going nuts. Such a tremendous disappointment.